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How Will Generation X Lead Big Law? Image

How Will Generation X Lead Big Law?

Lauren Still Rikleen

<b><i>Stop Obsessing About the Millennials (for Now)</b></i><p>For decades, members of Generation X have been stuck between two behemoth, attention-draining generations, wondering if they would forever be relegated to back-bench leadership — mere seat-warmers for ambitious millennials waiting for baby boomers to retire. Now, as boomers slowly face their own mortality and aging bodies after a lifetime of devotion to work, there is no longer a need to question whether Gen X will have an opportunity to lead.

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2018: What Last Year's Trends Can Mean for Big Law Image

2018: What Last Year's Trends Can Mean for Big Law

Scott Flaherty, Chris Johnson, Meghan Tribe, Roy Strom, Miriam Rozen & Lizzy McLellan

With the new year upon us, law firms have just been through the typical year-end crush of collections, budgeting, compensation decisions and more. The authors recently took a look at 2017's hottest trends, and explored what we could expect from them in 2018.

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To Train or Not to Train? That Is the Question

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Before starting a training program, conduct a needs assessment when performance is inappropriate or inadequate. This means when one or more attorneys or staff are not doing what they should be doing, or they are doing something they should not be doing. Here's how to proceed.

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Professional Development: Marketing Plans for Partners Image

Professional Development: Marketing Plans for Partners

Sharon Meit Abrahams

<b><i>Better Yet: 'Personal Strategic Plans'</i></b><p> If law firm partners thought of themselves as their own small business and not just a member of their firm, they would embrace the idea of creating a personal strategic vision. No need to hire a consultant; it just takes thought and time to memorialize it.

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2017 Roundup: Equity vs. Non-Equity Membership Image

2017 Roundup: Equity vs. Non-Equity Membership

Arthur J. Ciampi

<b><i>Last Year Saw a Number of Interesting Decisions Concerning the Identity, Rights and Obligations of Non-Equity Owners, Including Partners and Shareholders</b></i><p>2017 saw a number of interesting decisions concerning the identity, rights and obligations of non-equity owners, including partners and shareholders. As more firms utilize non-equity members to play vital roles within their firms, it will become more important for them to take note of these decisions and the guidance they provide.

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Five Ideas Lawyers Can Learn from the Military

Michael P. [email protected]

<b><i>A Different Perspective </b></i> <p>Here are five ideas that lawyers can learn from the military. They just might work for you and your firm.

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Lack of Gender-Diverse Partnership: Is It the Woman or the Firm? Image

Lack of Gender-Diverse Partnership: Is It the Woman or the Firm?

Daniella Isaacson

<b><i>Data-Driven Research by ALM Intelligence Suggests Three Reasons Why Gender-Diverse Partnership Fails</b></i><p>It is now common knowledge that female headcount within the ranks of Big Law partnership, both equity and non-equity, has held steady for the past few years at around 20%. The obvious question is, why?

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Read This Before You Set Your 2018 Billing Rates Image

Read This Before You Set Your 2018 Billing Rates

Hugh A. Simons

Failure to increase senior billing rates differentially, and thus to rebalance the source of margin from junior to senior lawyer time, will result in a calamitous decline in profitability. It can be avoided if firms start now to gradually change their billing rate structures.

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Can Millennials Save Your Law Firm? Image

Can Millennials Save Your Law Firm?

Lizzy McLellan

<b><i>After Years of Complacency About Their Business Model and the Pipeline for Talent, There's a Reason Law Firms Are So Worried About Managing the Millennial Generation</b></i><p>For law firms wringing their hands about how to manage the millennial generation — or asking why they should adapt to this crop of young lawyers in the first place — here's the bad news: If you're still clinging to traditional models for training associates and running the partnership, you've already fallen behind. The millennials are here, they're climbing the ranks, and they've already begun to transform the industry.

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Security First Approach Provides a Significant Advantage to Law Firms Image

Security First Approach Provides a Significant Advantage to Law Firms

Mark Sangster

Security first is a holistic approach that views security not as an information technology nuisance in need of tight cost-management controls, but as a competitive advantage to differentiation from traditional business offerings. Here's what you need to know.

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